Pyramid Review
En Route (for d20)
Published by Atlas Games
Written by Justin Achilli, Keith Baker, Joe Crow, Scot H. P. Drew, Matt Forbeck, Will Hindmarch, Spike Y. Jones, Michele A. Brown Nephew, Scott Reeves, John Seavey, Matt Sprengler, Eric Tam and John Tynes
Illustrated by Lee Moyer, Mike Dutton, David Interdonato, Jennifer Myer, Steven Sanders, Helena Wickberg and David White
128-page perfect bound book; $20.95
The "side trek" scenario has been a staple fixture in issues of Dungeon Magazine -- and thus for the average Dungeons & Dragons player -- for many a long year now. Each of these short one-session adventures is intended to be run as an aside or diversion for the party as they move from one goal to the next. Atlas Games have now taken up the idea under their Penumbra imprint and published En Route, a collection of d20 encounters to be run almost literally as the party are on the road.
There are a total of twenty-one encounters within En Route, which means you are paying a scintilla less than a dollar per encounter. The purpose of En Route is to use it to supplement or even replace the wandering monster table, substituting random violence with something more memorable and more challenging. As with all Penumbra releases, the production values for En Route are excellent, with just a pair of insignificant typographical errors. Each encounter is never less than three pages in length -- most are longer -- and each is accompanied with just the one illustrative piece of art. All of . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: November 30, 2001
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